I’m going to avoid politics, and respond in a different way. However, the thinking is based on politics. It cuts across political lines. What I see is that some are worried about the economy and some are worried about society. I don’t see a distinction. A strong society will have a strong economy. The reverse is not guaranteed. Guys like David Solomon, ceo of Goldman Sachs and Jamie Dimon talk about expanding opportunity to those that have been left behind. They realize that this is not a zero sum game - that we all do better when we each do better.
This isn't good news for testing. CDC says error rate in antibody tests is up to 50%. My employer is based in Europe and got a blood test from the Pasteur Institute. It's supposed to test for both covid and antibodies with results in 15 minutes and a claimed accuracy of 98.7%. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/26/health/antibody-tests-cdc-coronavirus-wrong/index.html
True, but a bunch of states aren't going to do that. Estimates at our university have Texas something like 4000 tests per day below the minimum threshold for being able to properly track and contain everything. The false part of this is letting the stupid states potentially effect the health and well being in the states being run by adults.
Imagine singing in a supporters group, making noise when the defense is on the field in football or just generally celebrating a moment in any sport.
I would imagine the first "sport" to allow spectators will be WWE/AEW or maybe UFC. Boxing might go for it too, just because they have to, in order to afford the giant purses for the fighters. They can totally do something like 2,000 people at T-Mobile arena at $1000/ticket and sell out for the biggest fights.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-tanking-crown-a-champion-and-re-open-the-nba Suggestions for the NBA's return. I don't like having teams finish with an uneven number of games. I do like avoiding tanking - the whole concept is sickening to me.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...lay-in-tournament-over-world-cup-style-format Half of NBA GMs voted to end the regular season immediately.
I guess the NWSL really wanted to be first. I don't really get the tournament if their season never really started. Unless CBS is actually giving them significant money, how is this good for the players? This is rolling the dice that people will watch because there are no other sports on.
I don't think they're rolling the dice on people watching in as much as only two games (opener/final) are on CBS. At this point, I'm guessing the cohort of people who subscribe to CBS All Access is mainly Star Trek nerds and completists. (I, myself, took advantage of the free 30 day Trial in May to watch both seasons of Discovery and the one of Picard, as well as the Short Treks). As someone who works (indirectly) for the NWSL, I might subscribe for a month during the tournament, but I suspect most generic sports fans won't, and I'm guessing CBS knows that. It will bring in some attention, though. I fully expect that the Salt Lake tournament will be the entire 2020 NWSL experience. A placeholder to keep the league from going dark for 18 months. I think the ownership sees it as a marketing expense and the lesser of two evils. It also allows them to activate several new national sponsorships (Verizon, Secret, P&G) as well as breaking in the CBS contract. I'm guessing Twitch will have to wait until 2021.
The Rapids just told season-ticket holders that starting in June they're halting all monthly payments for season tickets and will credit any missed/closed door games to 2021 season tickets. If the season ticket holder wants another option (read: money back) they have a form to fill out and somebody will contact them. They also appear to state that for current season ticket holders the 2021 prices will remain the same as 2020, but the language of the email isn't completely clear on that.
Crew have refunded several games and parking passes to me. They have 8 weeks after the match would have been played. They offered a 10% credit if instead of taking the refund I applied it to next year's seats at the new stadium.
FC Cincinnati season ticket holders got essentially the same message two weeks ago. Differences were that our payment plans had us completed by the first game (no one had remaining payment to be made) and more importantly, we were getting an additional 10% Appreciation Credit applied to our account. Of course, season ticket prices will likely increase by 10% or more, given the new stadium[emoji6]. I decided to put down a seat deposit for club seats in the new stadium since my credit for this year’s seats is over half the price of club seats for next year. There is no way they will be able to restart before July 1, which is about half way through the season. They need to do something. Just thinking out loud... this whole thing probably cost the league upwards of $500 million ($20 million a team seems low) in lost revenue. A decent chunk of that, maybe half or more, will be lost wages for the players. Some will be stadium costs ($5-15 million each in debt service/rent). Gotta wonder whether all of the teams will survive.
Also rumored to be at ESPN Wide World of Sports. That would be some overlap with MLS, but not much. Given that the NBA would be inside and MLS outside, as well as no spectators, it should work out fine.
Meanwhile, as for the USL: I got a call from Sacramento Republic yesterday saying that 90% of my (fully paid) season ticket will be credited to 2021 unless I request a refund. If the USL resumes play in 2020, season ticket holders will be offered single game tickets at season ticket prices, as socially distanced capacity would not be enough to accommodate all the season ticket holders.